LibriVox's 2011 Christmas Short Works Collection.

This year's Christmas feast of short stories, essays and poetry is mostly English cuisine, with a little dash of French and Middle English seasoning. Here you will find many old favourites, and some festive treats which may be new to you.

The collection comprises:
A Child's Story by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
A Christmas Dinner by James Joyce (1882-1941)
A Christmas Eve in the Far South Seas from Rídan The Devil And Other Stories by Louis Becke (1855-1913)
A Christmas Fairy by John Strange Winter (1856 - 1911)
Christmas in a Dugout from Tales from a Dugout by Arthur Guy Empey (1883-1963)
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Christmas in the Olden Time by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
Christmas Scene at Camelot from Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (Stanzas III-VI) by the anonymous Pearl poet (fl. 1380-1400)
Christmas Time by John Clare (1793–1864)
Un conte de Noël by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball by William Lawrence Chittenden (1862-1934)
The Golden Cobwebs from Christmas ed. Robert Haven Schauffler (1879-1964)
Good King Wenceslas translated from the Latin, by J. M. Neale (1818-1866)
Is there a Santa Claus? Frank P. Church (1839-1906)
Joy Born at Bethlehem by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Julius Adolphus Jenkins's Christmas Alligator by Louis Becke (1855-1913)
The Mistletoe by Bryan Waller Proctor (1787–1874)
An Old-Fashioned Christmas by Richard Marsh (1857-1915)
A Picture of the Nativity by Fra Filippo Lippi by Vernon Lee (1856–1935)
Reginald on Christmas Presents by Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916)
Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916)
Santa Claus by an anonymous author, from Christmas (1907) ed. Robert Haven Schauffler (1879-1964)
Santa Claus at Simpson's Bar by Bret Harte (1836-1902)
'Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration Leona Dalrymple (1884-?)
The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap by Ruth Sawyer Durand (1880-1970) from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
What Christmas Is As we Grow Older by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
What Think Ye of Christ by J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)
Why the Sea is Salt by Mary Howitt (1799–1888)

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This audio is part of the collection: The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
It also belongs to collections: Audio Books & Poetry; Community Audio

Artist/Composer: Various
Date: 2011-12-17
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; christmas; holiday; short stories; poetry; religion

Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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Reviewer: BenjaminS.T. - - December 24, 2012
Subject: Christmas Short Works 2011
For the past few days I've been listening to this collection in small portions at a time and I have to say that for the most part I have been entertained by most of what I could understand, as not all of the stories in this collection are in the English language. I think that I chose to have a listen to this to get a closer look at a big part of my own nation's culture and traditions. Its my opinion that the source materials, the actual written stories themselves are of a five star level but its also my opinion that some of the reading in Christmas Short Works 2011 could have been better. I give Christmas Short Works 2011 four stars.